I'm not sure that running a forum is the best use of our time, compared to spending the time talking to new businesses. We will be polishing up the blog and putting more in-depth discussions on there. The one for Crowdfunding with Max keiser is a good one, it talks about the reasons why he likes bitcoin, and some how-to videos.
Obviously I don't know any of you personally, nor am I privy to your financials or customer data, so the rest of this post should be regarded as the uninformed speculation of someone who's thinking out loud and probably nothing you haven't already considered.
You're involved in a potentially disruptive technology like Bitcoin because your goal is more than merely being profitable enough to pay the bills and keep food on the table. You want to eventually be a household name - a
verb. This means you need at least another four orders of magnitude of growth from where you are now.
Your first thousand customers have primarily been early adopters and enthusiasts which are a good to get started with, but won't be enough to break into the mainstream. Mainstream businesses are going to include a lot of people who are suspicious of the technology, or even hostile to it, but there is a phrase that will get your foot in the door anywhere: "Our customers typically see their bottom line improve by X% shortly after signing up with us" where X is suitably impressive. Your press release didn't include any sales volume numbers, which makes me think that number is not nearly as impressive as the number of signups.
The best way to make sure "X" is high enough to really contribute to your momentum would be to make sure your customers know not just how to accept bitcoins, but how to fully take advantage of this new capability by selling into markets which were previously unavailable to them. Some customers are going to "get it" immediately and others will need some help in order to become the success stories that you need to break into the mainstream. This is very important to do because otherwise you'll just saturate the enthusiast market and stop growing. Whatever means you decide to employ it's vital to make sure that your customers learn how to fully benefit from your service as quickly as possible because their success will determine how far you're able to go. Also anything you can do to expand new markets for your customers, like working with partners to get remittances flowing into new countries and/or setting up bitcoin exchanges there will fuel your own growth by increasing the number of people in the world who have access to bitcoins.
